Btjbueb foe vapok-lamps



R. RAMSAY.

Vapor Burner. No. 24,147. y Patented 'May24,"1s59.

UNTTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT RAMSAY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BURNER FOR VAPOR-LAMPS.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 24,147, dated May 24, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT RAMSAY, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Burners for Fluid-Lamps, and do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being' had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.

My improved burner is constructed as follows:

A is the portion that screws upon the fountain or vessel containing the fluid.

B is the tube Containing the wick.

C, C, is a chamber wherein the fluid is evaporated by means of heat.

D D D is the tube through which the gas passes to the jet E.

Fluid being drawn up the tube B by means of capillary action is evaporated by heating the chamber C. The gas thus generated passes around this chamber as indicated by the red arrows in the drawing and through the tube D D D to the jet E.

In order to start the lamp it is necessary to hold the flame of a lamp for a few mo- -then conducted the heat downward but this interfered with the light. By myplan however the whole flame is above the chamber C C and yet the heating of that chamber is produced by the llame coming from the jet.

Another advantage of my improvement is that it obviates the necessity of applying the flame of another lamp at intervals to the chamber C, C.

Having' thus described my improvement, what I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is* The combination of the wick tube B, the gas chamber C C, the tube D and jet E arranged and operating substantially as above described.

ROBERT RAMSAY.

Witnesses J. G. MINICHILD, J. H. B. JENKINS. 

